Biomedical Research Centre news

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The next five years of ground-breaking research

3 Apr 2017, 12:23 p.m.

The NIHR Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) starts a new five-year funding term today.

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GOSH announced as lead for new Europe-wide epilepsy network

30 Mar 2017, 11:31 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has been announced as the lead in a new Europe-wide epilepsy network, aiming to increase collaborations across Europe and improve access to innovative and highly-specialised diagnostics.

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Researchers awarded grant to set up new diagnostic service for encephalitis

30 Mar 2017, 11:29 a.m.

BRC-funded researchers have been awarded a two year grant to set up a new diagnostic service for encephalitis.

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Spinraza: the first treatment for spinal muscular atrophy to receive FDA approval

30 Mar 2017, 11:28 a.m.

At the end of 2016, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for the use of Spinraza (nusinsersen) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in paediatric and adult patients. This is unprecedented for the SMA community wit

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GOSH BRC team define a new autoinflammatory disease caused by a mutation in WDR1

30 Mar 2017, 11:24 a.m.

Research carried out by BRC-funded Professor Paul Brogan and his team has defined a new autoinflammatory disease (AID) in humans with periodic fevers, immunodeficiency and intermittent thrombocytopenia.

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